And we need not be surprised if we find in the resulting mythologicstructures a strong resemblance to the familiar creations of the Aryan intelligence.
The same mighty power of imagination which now, restrained and guided by scientific principles, leads us to discoveries and inventions, must then have wildly run riot in mythologic fictions whereby to explain the phenomena of nature.
They fulfill, however, one very definite though not obviously important function which is indicated by the mythologic name they have received.
It is interesting to compare the legend of Derbforgaill with a somewhat more modern Picardy folk-lore conte which is clearly analogous but no longer seems to show any mythologic element, "La Princesse qui pisse par dessus les Meules.
Such legends, which have lost any mythologic elements they may originally have possessed and have become merely contes, are not uncommon in the folk-lore of many countries.
Together with these are a number of animal figures, some with human bodies, dress and armor, which likewise have a mythologic significance.
Death evidently had an important significance in the mythologic conceptions of the Mayas.
Mythologic combinations of this kind occur among the following deities and mythological animals: 1.
But these researches themselves have proved beyond a doubt, that the mythologic import of the manuscripts belongs to one and the same sphere of thought.
Finally the owl and the ape (or monkey) must be mentioned as animals of mythologic significance, of which we have already spoken in connection with gods A and C.
Essentially the same deities and the same mythologic ideas are, without question, to be found in all the manuscripts.
Besides, the hieroglyphs of other known deities occur each time in the above-mentioned places, so that definite mythologic relations must be assumed to exist here between the women repsented and the deities in question.
Others have considered god B as the first parent and lord of the heavens, Itzamná who has a mythologic importance analogous to that of Kukulcan.
The great abundance of symbolism renders difficult the characterization of the deity, and it is well-nigh impossible to discover that a single mythologic idea underlies the whole.
The scorpion also seems to have an important mythologic significance, and appears in the manuscripts in connection with figures of gods, as, for example, in Cort.
While, however, the authenticity of this curious politico-mythologic tale is undisputed, the names and allusions would show it to be of the modern class of Indian fictions, were not the fact historically known.
No excellences of coloring, no marvels of foreshortening, no miracles of mechanism can consecrate the salacious images of mythologic abomination.
But he was the head of a realm of evil over against the sovereignty of God; and the intensity of the moral consciousness of sin was reflected in the mythologic form of his warfare against the hosts of heaven.
Their white skins, large eyes with wide gaze, their lovely children appear in religious and mythologic pictures at every turn you make in this museum.
It seems strange in the presence of a Cézanne picture to realise that he, too, suffered his little term of lyric madness and wrestled with huge mythologic themes--giant men carrying off monstrous women.
Mythologic representations of earth, air, and water.
Now there is a distinct mythologic reason for such a representation.
The mythologic character belongs, not to the details of the children's rounds, but to the cycle of traditions on which these are founded.
In the more advanced stages of Pueblo art the ornament of nearly all the textiles is pervaded by ideographic characters, generally rude suggestions of life forms, borrowed, perhaps, from mythologic art.
The figure probably represents one of themythologic personages of the Moki pantheon or some otherwise important priestly functionary, wearing the characteristic headdress of the ceremony in which the plaque was to be used.
Again, the actors inmythologic philosophy are personages, and we always find them organized in societies.
The three stages of mythologic philosophy that are still extant in the world must be more thoroughly characterized, and the course of their evolution indicated.
If the world's opinions were governed only by the principles of mythologic philosophy, affirmatization would become so powerful that nothing would be believed but the anciently affirmed.
In mythologic philosophy the phenomena of the outer physical world are supposed to be the acts of living, willing, designing personages.
The gods of mythologic philosophies are created to account for the wonders of nature.
You may call this mythologic or scientific, as you please.
Still further in the study of mythologic philosophy we see that more and more supremacy falls into the hands of the few, until monotheism is established on the plan of the empire.
Fetichism, then, is a religious means, not a philosophic or mythologic state.
Such are the thaumaturgics of mythologic philosophy.
But in order to do this clearly, certain outgrowths from mythologic philosophy must be explained--certain theories and practices that necessarily result from, this philosophy, and that are intricately woven into the institutions of mankind.
Maga,' and write sketches of home life-descriptions of places and things that you understand better than recondite analogies of ethical creeds and mythologic systems, or the subtle lore of Coptic priests.
Now, the thought of carefully gathering up these vague mythologic links, and establishing a chain of unity that would girdle the world, seized and mastered her, as if veritably clothed with all the power of a bath kol.
There is nothing more drear, monstrous, wild, dark, and lonely in the descriptions of the mythologic than of the scientific page.
There is a certain grotesque humor in Thor's adventures, which is missed in his mythologic counterpart of the South, Hercules.
How opposite and remote from each other are the mythologic ages and the nineteenth century!
The common people love the arts, and blend this taste with their devotion, which is more regular in Tuscany than in any other Italian state; but they frequently confound mythologic figures with Scripture history.
One I will call the practical or domestic; the other, the mythologic or religious.
Before entering upon the purely mythologic phases of Zuñi child life I will present a brief sketch of some of the Zuñi beliefs.
The peculiar geologic and geographic character of the country surrounding them, as well as its aridity, furnishes ample sources from which a barbarous people would derive legendary and mythologic history.
It was found at Chichen, and the Doctor thinks it may have some deep mythologic meaning, which he generously leaves to some other ethnologist to decipher.
And thus the personages ofmythologic story became world-types.
The value of the mythologic matter, however, already forced itself upon the mind, and the conviction of its suitability to musical embodiment, because freed from hampering accessories, came to him at this period of his career.
XIV-42] This little mythologic story informs us that the pomegranate tree was known to antiquity, and that the garden of the Elysian fields contained most excellent fruit for the use of its melancholy inhabitants.
These are some of the Iroquois gods, a knowledge of whose existence is contained only in myths, for they belong to the charmed "mythologic age.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mythologic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
